The Dirty Pretty, Wasabi Neon, Primitive Broadcast Service
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Red Rooster 2513 Seiferth Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53716
Justin Propp
The band Primitive Broadcast Service at a bar.
Primitive Broadcast Service
media release: The Dirty Pretty (Jeaniee Dee, guitar; Mike Christenson, drums) is a homocore rock duo. Also described as noise, math, punk rock. A Bear and a Non-Binary on a queer-positive punk rock adventure. On a regional tour in June, their high-energy show is sure to captivate audiences everywhere they go.
Wasabi Neon is a hodgepodge of metallic hardcore, Miami Vice and Bladerunner aesthetics, flamingos, and on stage flailing. Featuring former members of Cowboy Amazing and Desolate, their live shows ratchet up the intensity and stage-antics with metallic fury and the occasional gift being thrown out onstage. Based in Madison, the band is currently working on their 1st EP due out later this year.
Primitive Broadcast Service (PBS) is an experimental rock trio based in Milwaukee, often described as a noise rock band. PBS music has been likened to "Sonic Youth at their height when everything was rawkus and slightly off-key" (overblown UK), with cited influences as diverse as Velvet Underground, Mission of Burma, FACS and the Stooges.
This time in Madison, PBS is bringing a new single, "Wolf Mask (Live at the Cactus Club)", mixed by the Milwaukee Taper Richard Hayes and mastered by Blake Francis Bickel of Dynamic Sound Service in Kalamazoo.
PBS began as musical experiments for open-tuned guitars and new language by guitarist J.D. Morgan and became a rock band in 2018 when drummer Bryan Dorn joined. They've released two full length albums, beginning in the heavy psych and dissonant sprawl of the s/t debut, and leading to the follow-up, Colors for Chameleons. On Chameleons, they found a more angular, urban skronk sound for the immediate lyrical themes of anxiety, detachment, social injustice, desperation and renewal.
The LP, released on 12" vinyl, was hailed "an instant noise classic" (@ntxnoise for Caterwaul.org) and PBS described as "correspondents in a world turned upside down" (Shepherd Express 10/28/21). Chameleons is "a noisy, 7-track soundtrack to the decaying structures and ideals of the American Midwest" (Milwaukee Record, 10/21/21).
PBS continues to tour and record as a trio, tracking their third LP at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studios. A live release is expected in fall of 2024. Permanent members since 2019 are Morgan, Dorn and Andy Steffenhagen (bass guitar, effects).
RIYL: Caterwaul Festival, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, FACS, Velvet Underground, Ganser, Unwound
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